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Think small to salvage the wine fest
WHEN Remy Martin, the family-owned
French liquor giant, bought the jewel
of Clare, Quelltaler, from Nathan
& Wyeth in 1982, its Australian
manager, the colourful Francois
Henri, appointed a brilliant
Alsace winemaker to run the
show. He was Michel Dietrich,
from a family-owned winery
in Kaiserberg. He left Alsace in a winter of blizzards,
arrived in Adelaide in 42-degree heat, hired a car and
drove to Clare.
Although it took many years for
his impact to properly settle,
Dietrich revolutionised Clare
white wine-making.
First thing he did was get a back
hoe into the vineyards and check
the geology. To the ridicule of
many locals, he then picked the
vineyards accordingly. Once he’d
raised the French tricolour above
the old Springvale House, the home of the Sobels,
he got straight down to making stunning Rieslings
with yeast he’d brought from home, and the best ever
Semillons in good French oak.
He also brought a tale of an ancient vintage
celebration. Each year, when their ferments were
complete, the people of Kaiserberg would stroll
through their winding hillside village, tasting each
other’s wine in the cellars common beneath their
story-book houses, with their fachwerk... READ MORE
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A standout sexist insult
Elizabeth Ho
THE reported remarks (Indaily, August 3) made
about our Prime Minister and women generally by the
Australian Agricultural Company CEO David Farley
are deeply offensive on a number of levels. The term
“old cow” is laden with meaning. READ MORE
Margaret Dingle
THE remark by the CEO of the Australian
Agricultural Company about Julia Gillard,
implying she was an “old cow” and not productive
(despite all the legislation passed by her
government) was most inappropriate. Would he
call a male politician an old bull? READ MORE
Lamenting lost lunches
Alan Cooper
LET’S put the blame where it belongs over the
demise of the long lunch, or even the short lunch –
the Federal Government. READ MORE
Miscellaneous Lawyer
TWO things struck me about Susan Mitchell’s
long lunch article (Indaily, August 2). Firstly, my
mother was part of a very nice “ladies that lunch”
group who were old school friends who met up
about once every few months on a weekend and
caught up. READ MORE
Philip White
WINE
The politics of sport
Michel Dietrich with his Champenoise wife, Isobel, at Watervale in 1984. Photo: Philip White
Sean Gorman/The Conversation
OPINION
THERE are many people who would
like us to believe that sport and politics
should never mix. The reason for this is
that sport is seen as the pure and noble
practice where champions arrive after
hard work and application and chancers
and cheats are found out.
Politics is seen as grubby and cynical,
where body blows become part of the
national discussion and big decisions
come with small movements of the
policymaker’s pen.
But sport and politics have always been
entangled. To take one from... READ MORE
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